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Derrick Day (The Ayatollah)

DerrickDayTASOB

People will scoff at accelerationism or say it's reckless, but to a large degree it's arises from the understanding that 1.) we zero institutional or political power, and 2.) all

Elie Mystal

ElieNYC

Things we knew about @realDonaldTrump before yesterday:* He tried to delegitimize a Black president with a racist trope.* He called for the execution of Black teenagers who were innocent.* 26

Alex Simon

AlexGSimon

THREAD I was excited to see the NYT editorial board take on the colonial undercurrents in foreign aid. Then I read the piece, and wound up even more frustrated than

TheGreatestStoryEverTold

backontrack25

Watch the water.Under maritime law(law of sea) it will take eons to prosecute corporate entities or (straw man person)Under law of land(terra firma) or constitutional law prosecutions are quick &

Justice For The Uyghur Three

uyghurthree

Canada's abysmal treatment of the #UyghurThree former Guantanamo detainees is partially a consequence of the Federal government's acquiescence to the CCP's strategies of hostage diplomacy and foreign interference into domestic

Benjamin Haddad

benjaminhaddad

Maybe the best book to understand some of the modern dilemmas of French foreign policy, but also lessons for transatlantic relations. De Gaulle’s political genius during WWII was to understand

Greg Siskind

gsiskind

I'm reluctant to declare a policy of the Biden Administration anti-gay, but today's travel ban announcement is, unfortunately. Let me explain. 1 Most countries around the world still bar same-sex

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

NEW: Trump spent four years demolishing America's historic legacy of anti-corruption leadership. Here's what the Biden administration can, and should, do to restore America's anti-kleptocracy bona fides:https://newrepublic.com/a

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Important Commons Committee on border delays:Road Haulage Assoc: 1000s lorries waiting “catastrophic & unacceptable”...“no confidence, never had confidence drivers will be looked after” need hygiene facilities/food, like France.

Katya

ThatKatyaGirl

A lot of people, including the BBC, keep repeating that the UK is "breaking international law". Here is a thread on why this is a meaningless sentence. Feel free to

Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸

KatieDaviscourt

Important for people to know: When Police declare a RIOT protesters lose their rights to “protest.” Those who stay and actively take part, no matter how “peaceful” some may be,

Stanley Pignal

spignal

Quick thread on Europe's "strategic autonomy" and how it relates to "industrial policy".A year ago, a (French) private-equity fund wanted to cash out of its stake in Photonis, a mid-sized

Jenn Budd ✊🏻

BuddJenn

It’s not lost on me how similar Trump & Q followers are to what Americans traditionally believe of terrorist groups. Ideologies based in hate & misogyny, claims to religious motives,

🇺🇲Brandon Beckham, Esq. #HoldTheLine

BrandonBeckham_

DEVELOPING: Dec 18, 2020 Sec. of State @SecPompeo & Sec. Treasury @StevenMnuchin1 published coordinated Tweets at 11:30-11:31 am.Per @realDonaldTrump Exec. Order 13848, Sec. 3(b), Secretaries of State & Treasury must

Miqdaad Versi

miqdaad

For those unaware of what @MuslimCouncil said on Uighur Muslims:1. In 2018, we wrote to the Chinese Ambassador to discuss the atrocities against Uighur Muslims2. We also called out the

Yair Rosenberg

Yair_Rosenberg

The average Israeli doesn't know much about domestic US politics, just as the average American doesn't know much about domestic politics in Israel or other foreign countries. This lets Netanyahu

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